Senior Associate Scientist, Purification Process Design
Evotec
Full-time
Remote friendly (Redmond, WA)
United States
Operations
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Role Summary
Senior Associate Scientist, Purification Process Design based in Redmond, WA. Roles involve leading purification process development for biotherapeutics, collaborating with the team, and driving innovative solutions to advance platform capabilities.
Responsibilities
- Dive deep into purification process development for biotherapeutics, always looking for ways to improve and innovate.
- Accurately and consistently record laboratory work in electronic lab notebooks and paper batch records.
- Compound purification buffers and solutions, assemble and pack chromatography column hardware.
- Operate AKTA Avant & Pure systems using Unicorn software, Pendotech PMAT and four-channel NFF automated data collection systems, Repligen automated TFF systems, and glass washers.
- Analytical results analysis from chromatography operations, organization and presentation of data, and report writing.
- Support the transfer processes to manufacturing facilities.
- Technology development to expand platform capabilities, reduce cost, and improve the efficiency of purification processes.
- Regularly share your findings, ideas, and solutions in both team settings and presentations.
Qualifications
- BS or MS degree in Engineering, Biochemistry, Biotechnology or related field and 2-5 years of relevant laboratory experience.
- Knowledgeable in mammalian derived downstream purification development, resin modalities (affinity, IEX, MM, HIC) and chromatography purification theory, and buffer compounding.
- Normal and tangential flow filtration theory and operation for depth filtration, and UF/DF.
- Experience executing laboratory scale viral filtration and single pass TFF operations.
- Excellent experimental design and analysis skills, ideally including manipulation and presentation using JMP.
- Experience with Microsoft Office apps (Word, PowerPoint, Excel).
- Excellent communicator, both verbally and in writing, able to share complex ideas in a simple, relatable way.
- A self-starter who takes initiative, owns your projects, and actively seeks out new challenges.